{"product_id":"palm-oil-the-grease-of-empire","title":"Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its origins in West Africa to today's Southeast Asian palm oil superpowers, Haiven's sweeping, experimental narrative takes us on a global journey that includes looted treasures, the American system of mass incarceration, the history of modern art and the industrialisation of war. Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts, he argues for recognising in palm oil humanity's profound potential to shape our world beyond racial capitalism and neo-colonial dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne part history, one part dream, one part theory, one part montage, this kaleidoscopic and urgent book asks us to recognise the past in the present and to seize the power to make a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMax Haiven is Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include \u003cem\u003eRevenge Capitalism, Art after Money, Money after Art, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Powerfully demonstrates how, by following the history of a key commodity, we can reconstruct the logic of imperial capitalism: its destruction of land and bodies, its drive to constantly reduce the means of our reproduction, its relentless production of oppressive regimes. The story it narrates is crucial for our understanding of the terrains of struggle and the material conditions of solidarity between different social justice movements.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jampacked with insights that will surprise and haunt readers, Haiven\"s arguments about the centrality of palm oil to colonial history and modern life are compelling, persuasive, and far-reaching.\" Andrew Ross, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/stone-men-the-palestinians-who-built-israel\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whether you\"re reading this on a screen or a printed page, you\"re implicated in the global palm oil trade. In this lovely book, Max Haiven takes us on a whirlwind tour of how that came to be, guiding us through the workings of the global engines that have long been lubricated by the grease of empire.\" Raj Patel, co-author of \u003cem\u003eA History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhose grease? \u003cbr\u003eWhose punishment? \u003cbr\u003eWhose fetish? \u003cbr\u003eWhose weapon? \u003cbr\u003eWhose fat? \u003cbr\u003eWhose surplus? \u003cbr\u003eWhose sacrifice? \u003cbr\u003eWhose story? \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41052743925853,"sku":"9780745345826","price":25.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/5178.jpg?v=1685566459","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/palm-oil-the-grease-of-empire","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}